Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
No. 10. The cruelty of the planters towards the slaves drove the slaves to revolt, 1776. Those revolts,
which kept cropping up from time to time, finally came to a head in the rebellion. (1938)
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February 8, 2003:
She feels she's a bad person. That she'll have to change herself, as part of reorganizing her life in general, and it adds to the burden of insecurity she carries.
Is she a bad person? Of course not.
Like many sensitive people she has a blindness toward the sensitivities of others. If she doesn't share some particular insecurity, she doesn't respect it. In the way she scoffs at feelings she doesn't share she can be terribly cruel, sometimes.
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